Tag: jon huntsman

Republicans won an historic number of Congressional seats in the midterm election just six months ago. Tonight Fox News is hosting the first 2012 GOP presidential primary election debate and it will feature something like the weakest early lineup of candidates in modern memory. Serious Republican strategists will be watching either in denial or in panic through fingers stretched across their eyes.

In this fourth edition of The Iowa Independent’s 2012 Presidential Power Rankings, the panelists give nods to their widest field of potential candidates thus far, spreading their predictions between 13 individuals. Most also see 2012 shaping up as an outsiders-versus-establishment gambit, with the establishment winning if the grassroots are fractured.

Handwritten letters by Jon Huntsman, the outgoing ambassador to China and a potential 2012 Republican presidential candidate, seem to show a unique admiration for President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton.

You would think conservative Mormon Republican politicians would have it pretty easy in Utah. Think again.